2013 PSLO Water & Sanitation Mission Profile Booklet - Greater ...

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Corrine Cathala, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Corinne Cathala is a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist in the Water and
Sanitation division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she
began her career in 1996 as an Investment Officer, identifying and structuring
senior debt project financing for private sector infrastructure projects in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Since 2001, Corinne has been leading and collaborating
on the design and execution of water and sanitation projects in the region.
Prior to joining the IDB, Corinne worked at the International Finance Corporation,
the private sector arm of the World Bank, as an Investment Analyst and worked on the
rating of the IFC loan and equity portfolio. Corinne earned and M.B.A in international finance
from the George Washington University in 1994.
Rodrigo Riquelme, Water and Sanitation Sr. Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Rodrigo Riquelme joined the IDB at the Water and Sanitation Division in 2008 as
Water and Sanitation Sr. Specialist. He is a Chilean chartered civil engineer specialized
in infrastructure and water. He studied his degree in the University of
Chile and also holds a Master of Science in water resources and technology
from Birmingham University and an MBA from the University of Leicester both
in the United Kingdom. He has more than 17 years of experience in analysis, development
and implementation of operational and infrastructure projects in the
water sector. Mr. Riquelme worked in different water utilities in Latin America
and United Kingdom in operation improvement, planning and management of infrastructure. He
developed asset management schemes for infrastructure in Chile and Australia. In the solid
waste sector he has managed municipal solid waste projects which included design, contract development,
procurement and construction.
Diego Rodriguez, Senior Economist, Water Partnership Program, World Bank
Dr. Diego Rodriguez is currently a Senior Economist at the Water Unit of the
Department of Transport, Water and Information and Communication Technology
of the Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency of the World Bank. He is
the task team leader of the new World Bank initiative on the quantification of
the tradeoffs of the energy-water nexus and the Program Manager of the Water
Partnership Program. He is currently providing technical support to operational
teams on the use of economic analysis in large water infrastructure investments
under deep uncertainty. Prior to joining the World Bank he worked at the Danish Hydraulic Institute
and the Inter American Development Bank. He has more than 20 years of experience in sectoral,
operational, policy and strategy development in water supply, sanitation, and water resources
management.
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